Platform Trust & Safety Engineer: Fraud & Abuse Defender

Leadout Capital; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Platform Trust and Safety Engineer to identify and stop abuse, fraud, phishing, and account takeover across Core CRM and Marketing Cloud. You will join the Platform Defense and Safety team to detect malicious activity and drive improvements in abuse detection.

You will build detection rules in Splunk, maintain automated playbooks, and collaborate with Legal and Ethics teams on regulatory reporting such as the EU Digital Services Act.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in information security roles involving platform abuse, threat intelligence, incident response, or threat detection.
• Experience managing security or abuse investigations end to end: triage, evidence collection, risk assessment, containment, escalation, and closure
• Specialization in at least one of: log analysis, file-level forensics, or data mining
• Experience authoring detection rules using languages such as YARA or Splunk SPL, and comfort working from a command line

Responsibilities

• Review, triage, and respond to external and internal abuse reports across Core CRM and Marketing Cloud, with an eye toward expanding into new products
• Build and tune detection and response rules in Splunk, and author and maintain automated response playbooks
• Partner with our Office of Ethical Usage and Legal teams — including on regulatory reporting such as the EU Digital Services Act (DSA) — to keep our platforms free of malicious content
• Identify and document anti-abuse tooling requirements for engineering teams, and evaluate third-party vendor tools to close detection gaps

Skills

Threat intelligence

Incident response

Threat detection

Log analysis

Data mining

YARA

Splunk SPL

Command line

Tools

Splunk

YARA

Git/GitHub

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Platform Trust and Safety Engineer to identify and stop abuse, fraud, phishing, and account takeover across Core CRM and Marketing Cloud. You will join the Platform Defense and Safety team to detect malicious activity and drive improvements in abuse detection.

You will build detection rules in Splunk, maintain automated playbooks, and collaborate with Legal and Ethics teams on regulatory reporting such as the EU Digital Services Act.